Policy — Construction
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Tanner v. Town Council of Town of East Greenwich (2005)
Most recently applied in Peterson v. Dean (January 2015)
Acts 1974, ch. 442, §§ 1, 8; T.C.A., § 8-4401.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) The general assembly hereby declares it to be the policy of this state that the formation of public policy and decisions is public business and shall not be conducted in secret.
(2) This part shall not be construed to limit any of the rights and privileges contained in the Constitution of Tennessee, Article I, § 19.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.